Mojo Garlic Restaurant Sauce Recipes

GARLIC MOJO SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a small saucepan over medium. Stir in garlic, cumin, and oregano, then immediately remove from heat. Let cool 10-15 minutes. Stir in chile, lime juice, orange juice, and salt.
• Do Ahead
• Sauce can be made 1 week ahead. Transfer to an airtight container and chill.

MARINARA SAUCE (RALPH'S IN PHILADELPHIA)

Steps:

• Saute onions and garlic with olive oil in a 4-quart saucepan. When onions and garlic are golden color, add tomatoes, basil, salt, pepper, oregano, parsley and capers. Bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer for 1 hour, stirring constantly stirring.

MOONSHINE MOJO - GARLIC HOT SAUCE

Steps:

• To roast the garlic: drizzle each bulb with olive oil, wrapping in aluminum foil. Roast in oven at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
• Let garlic cool enough to handle. Breaking the bulbs apart, squeeze the individual cloves into a small food processor, pour in moonshine and blend together. When mixed, scrape contents into a large bowl.
• If desired, remove seeds from peppers. I leave the seeds, tossing the entire pepper into the processor ~ minus the stem of course.
• Puree 4-5 habanero peppers, add to garlic mixture.
• Puree 10-12 jalapeno peppers, add to garlic mixture.
• Puree baby carrots, making 1 cup of carrot puree, add to garlic mixture.
• Thoroughly mix together.
• Depending on your desired consistency of the hot sauce, spoon into 1 or 2 clean and sterilized mason jars. Cover just over the top of the carrot-garlic-pepper mixture with white vinegar.
• The hot sauce will have a sharp bite at first, let sit in refrigerator for a week for the flavors to blend and mellow.

CUBAN GARLIC SAUCE (MOJO CUBANO)

Steps:

• For the mojo, you will need a large bowl. In a large bowl, pour the sour orange juice or lime juice, oregano, salt, pepper, garlic and sliced onion into the bowl and stir.
• Heat the olive oil over medium-high for 2 minutes, then when hot, pour olive oil into bowl. Be careful not to get burned, since some of it might splatter out.
• Mix the mojo ingredients, then let sit for 30 minutes.

MOJO SAUCE

Steps:

• Toast the cumin in a small skillet.
• Add it to the other ingredients, shake well and serve.

MOJO PICON (GARLIC SAUCE)

Steps:

• Using a mortar and pestle, mash cumin, garlic, and chilis with salt.
• The mixture should be mashed well.
• Add paprika, vinegar and oil, and continue to blend.
• Add bread crumbs and mash.
• Gradually add water until desired consistency is reached.
• Serve with Spanish cheese (Majorero is nice), or over boiled potatoes, with crusty french bread, on fried fish, Anything goes!

MOJO (GARLIC CITRUS SAUCE)

Steps:

• Crush together garlic cloves and salt with a mortar and pestle, put into a medium bowl.
• Stir in bitter fresh orange juice, or lime juice, and fresh orange juice, olive oil, chopped fresh oregano, cumin, crushed dried oregano, and salt to taste.

MOJO SAUCE

Steps:

• Puree the garlic and half the orange juice in a food processor or blender. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the remaining juice with the dried and fresh oregano, and then add to the bowl. Grind the cumin and black pepper in a spice or coffee grinder, and then stir into the juice with the salt and sugar to taste. Let rest overnight before using.

MOJO GARLIC RESTAURANT SAUCE

Steps:

• Place garlic, salt, oregano, (optional cumin, black pepper and Adobo seasoning) into a wooden mortar & pestle and make into almost a paste, set aside.
• Combine in a separate bowl; lime juice (or sour orange juice), vinegar, set aside.
• In a frying pan add the olive oil and add the garlic paste, stir and cook briefly (1/2-1 minute).
• Next add the liquid ingredients, stir and cook briefly (1 minute), then remove (do not overcook) and let cool.
• NOTES:.
• This recipe is basically a Dominican/Cuban sauce and adopted from the Mambi Restaurants in New York City.
• This Mojo Sauce recipe will turn a bright "off color" green due to the fresh garlic in the recipe.
• You can make a variation of this recipe by adding mayonnaise to taste, however, it is not a traditional ingredient in Cubano Sandwiches. Also, adding butter is an optional ingredient --
• Mojo Sauce is great on a Cubano Sandwich: Cuban bread (substitute Italian/French Bread) with sliced fresh pork, sliced pink ham, white cheese, sour pickle, butter and Mojo Sauce. Heat/pressing the sandwich on a hot grill is preferred... however, Cubano sandwiches are also good cold. Further, I often substitute chicken for the white fresh pork....
• In Cuba,Mojo Sauce is traditionally made with the fresh juice from sour oranges.
• Mojo Sauce is also good on Yuka (Cassava) or Green Plantains as well.
• The Puerto Rican Mojo Sauce is white in color and with less spices used.